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Experiencing automated mapping first-hand makes me extremely wary of it. I've travelled across South America on a motorcycle, and OSM has a large amount of edit
by orbital-decay 2y ago
Experiencing automated mapping first-hand makes me extremely wary of it. I've travelled across South America on a motorcycle, and OSM has a large amount of edits there that look automated (particularly in Brazil), making it barely usable in certain places. I'm not even talking about rural roads but also fairly large cities.
- pastage 2y agoArmchair mapping will always result in bad maps. I usually try to use mapwithme and leave photo notes describing issues when I travel, I take photos of fences and play grounds, other people take scenic pictures. So it might very well be automatic mapping, just saying that I know my armchair mapping can be pretty bad when I gonand check it OTG.
- Aachen 2y agoBy bad, do you mean incomplete or that it's often actually wrong? Because my experience is that it's very complementary and I see things on aerial that I didn't irl and of course also vice versa. Mapping from the air seems to work well to me North Korea should be an interesting example, I guess we have no chance of anyone commenting on it but there's people who've been mapping it from actual satellite imagery, so very poor quality compared to the airplane-based georeferenced photographs we're used to in most countries. If armchair mapping makes bad maps, that will be the best example to have someone check out, but alas. (The visitor-accessible parts may not count as much because a mapper could have visited those)
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- lbschenkel 2y agoHi. Just out curiosity: where in Brazil?